Multiple Domain Names Pointing to One URL

[19958]

Hi!

A company I work with has purchased several (70-something) domain names that are relevant to their business. According to their IT pro, they're currently using DNS to point those domains to our IP address, with a catch-all header on IIS for that IP address.

Essentially, we have 70-something domain names that direct to the homepage.

I noticed that some have been indexed by Google and are pulling in the meta of the homepage they're being directed to.

Is this potentially an issue? If so, would 301 redirects fix this or are we okay with the status quo and the indexing is no big deal?

Thanks in advance!

[FedeEinhorn]

If those indexed by Google are showing up as the extra-domain.com instead of the primary domain.com and showing the description of the primary domain.com then you are risking your site to a backdoor penalty, which will cause a lot of harm.

My best advise: 301 redirect all those domains to the corresponding page of your primary domain.

Example:

• extra-domain.com 301 redirects to domain.com
• extra-domain.com/page1 301 redirects to domain.com/page1

Hope that helps!

PS: What was the idea behind purchasing 70+ domains? are those product domains? such as for example apple does (itunes.com redirects to apple's itunes page)?

[19958]

Thanks! And yes, they're product domains as well as domains that could potentially be snatched up by competitors.

[FedeEinhorn]

You're welcome.

Then do what the big giants do. Redirect each domain to the appropriate page in your main domain: product-domain.com 301 redirects to domain.com/product-page